Apps Development Group Manager - C14 - PUNE

Citi; Pune District; On-site; INR 20,00,000 - 30,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Pune is seeking an experienced Applications Development Group Manager. In this role, you will lead the development team working on the Demand Deposit Account platform. Candidates should have extensive experience in microservices and cloud-native banking solutions. This position involves managing a high-quality team and collaborating with product owners to ensure timely delivery of requirements. Strong communication and engineering management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Over 12 years of relevant experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience managing high-speed feature development on AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development team and manage the DDA platform.
• Engage with Product Owners and architects to understand requirements.
• Manage and guide a high-quality team of engineers.

Skills

Team management

Communication skills

Cloud-native applications

Microservice development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Java

AWS

MySQL

REST APIs

Job description

Overview

Citi has embarked on a multi-year transformation effort to simplify and modernize its legacy core banking platform. As part of the transformation, the Demand Deposit Account (DDA) module residing within the legacy core banking platform will be migrated onto a modern cloud native next generation DDA platform. The DDA platform will provide account management and transaction posting capabilities for Citi’s Institutional Clients Group (ICG) business globally. Citi has completed the selection of the DDA platform and built the foundational ecosystem with the new platform. The expansion of the setup for various markets now requires an experienced and knowledgeable individual who will be hands on with the platform to understand, design and develop it for future deployments.

The Applications Development Group Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to establish and implement new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to drive applications systems analysis and programming activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Citi DDA development team working alongside the vendor DDA solution provider team to enhance, manage and run the DDA platform
• Engage with Citi Product Owners, architects and squad members within the transformation program to understand the requirements and map them into the APIs and events out of the DDA platform
• Collaborate with DDA provider to ensure the requirements are delivered on-time and with quality
• Interact and co-ordinate with DDA solution provider peer squads and downstream squads like security, SRE, and Data
• Manage, guide, and work with a high-quality team of engineers
• Lead the implementation of DDA in line with the market roll out strategy
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties as necessary
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citi, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability to maintain these standards.

Professional Qualifications and attributes

• Over 12 years of relevant experience, Bachelors or higher degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years in application development
• Notable skill for establishing rapport and credibility with product owners and technical architects
• Strong engineering team management capability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
• Has had significant experience in managing high-speed feature development on AWS
• Experience with cloud native core banking solutions
• Experience with modernization of core banking platforms

Technical Qualifications

• Microservice development using Java, Golang, Groovy (non-negotiable)
• Strong knowledge of Distributed transactions (non-negotiable)
• In depth knowledge in the AWS services, namely S3, EC2, Private Link, Route 53, VPC, SQS, SNS (non-negotiable)
• Strong architecture knowledge of modern cloud-based development frameworks including microservices, APIs, CI-CD frameworks, data streaming
• MySQL, DynamoDB, Aurora DB, NoSQL
• REST APIs
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Mobile development frameworks (Angular, React)

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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Job Family Group: Technology

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Job Family: Applications Development

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Time Type: Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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